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Offline VEGNAcoreTopic starter

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External Disk Drive For A500
« on: October 17, 2008, 05:33:44 PM »
Can anyone tell me the best external disk drive for the A500, need to get a new one.??
Thanks :-)
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2008, 12:36:39 PM »
Commodore A1011
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2008, 09:19:38 PM »
Thanks jimbo!
Know the best place to grab one? :-)
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2008, 09:28:18 PM »
If you are lucky. ebay...
Some external Amiga diskdrives tends to show up from time to time....
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2008, 09:31:19 PM »
I have seen some....i see a neat little sony thing...but it went!
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2008, 10:34:00 PM »
I've got a A1010, but I don't know about it being the best. The 1010 was the big 880K drive from the A1000 era. Shipping from the USA would be costly too as the A1010 is a heavy beast.
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2008, 11:17:05 PM »
IMHO the California Access CA-880 disk drive is the best!  It is slim, attractive, high quality, it daisy chains, and it even has a disable switch on the back.
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2008, 12:16:15 AM »
Roctec brand gets my vote
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2008, 02:38:47 AM »
Golden image or cumana my favorite :)
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2008, 04:35:15 AM »
I liked my Golem external drive a lot (and it got a good test score in a Danish Amiga magazine back in the day as well)
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2008, 06:45:34 AM »
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tabuhuso wrote:
Golden image or cumana my favorite :)


Agreed! Cumana drives were always neat, tidy, and much quieter than those hulking great C= drives!


And Cumana's Atari ST drives were good too!


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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2008, 12:25:39 PM »
The slimline roctecs are the only ones I'd advise to avoid, as they are belt driven.

Everything else - no matter. Just get one you like. The 1" high ones are all 99% identical anyway. The mechanism will vary - TEAC, Sony, Panasonic, but there's only so many ways you can make the drive id/motor control logic board.

(there is actually a bug in the Hedaka HED-228 that it never turns off the spindle motor, but that is just one trace to cut on the PCB)
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2008, 02:56:43 PM »
If your going for practicality then get a slimline drive otherwise go for a 1010 as they were the original Amiga drive. :-D
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2014, 04:54:21 AM »
Hi Jope

"(there is actually a bug in the Hedaka HED-228 that it never turns off the spindle motor, but that is just one trace to cut on the PCB)"

Do you know what trace to cut Please

Ray
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Re: External Disk Drive For A500
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2014, 09:21:41 AM »
An SD card based HXC floppy emulator housed in whatever it fits in :D
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